Cultural References
- Songs entitled Glastonbury about the festival have been written by Nizlopi, The Waterboys and Scouting For Girls.
- Cosmic Rough Riders included "Glastonbury Revisited" on their album Enjoy The Melodic Sunshine (Poptones) in 2000.
- Amy Macdonald, in her song "Let's Start a Band" referenced Glastonbury: "Give me a festival and I'll be your Glastonbury star."
- Robbie Williams, in his song "The 90s", refers to his surprise appearance on stage with Oasis in 1995, which ultimately lead to him leaving Take That: "Everybody's worried 'what the fuck's wrong with Robbie? He's not answering his phone, he's not talking to me, I saw him on the telly at Glastonbury'."
- Joe Strummer wrote the song "Coma Girl" about his experiences at Glastonbury, — in a BBC interview Bruce Springsteen cited the song as inspiring him to play the 2009 festival.
- U2 wrote a song titled "Glastonbury" that was supposed to première with their appearance at the festival, but an injury to Bono forced them to cancel. They instead premièred it in a concert in Turin on their 360 Tour.
- Marcus Brigstocke's comic creation Giles Wemmbley Hogg had a special mock-documentary made about him going to Glastonbury as part of the Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off series.
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